Decision Making

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Attitudes of health care workers towards waking a terminally ill patient in the intensive care unit for treatment decisions.

OBJECTIVE: We examined whether health care workers would wake an intubated patient whose preferences are not known, and whether attitudes are influenced by how health care workers themselves would like to be treated if they were in the patients place. ...
Bernice S Elger, Jean-Claude Chevrolet (Intensive Care Med, 200303)
attitudes-health-care-workers-towards-waking-terminally-ill-patient.asp

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End-of-life intensive care unit decisions, communication, and documentation: an evaluation of physician training.

PURPOSE: The majority of patients dying in intensive care units (ICUs) do so after the forgoing of life-sustaining therapies (FLST). Communication between physicians, patients, and their families regarding the decision to FLST has not been evaluated in ...
Leonid A Eidelman, Daniel J Jakobson, T M Worner, Reuven Pizov, Debora Geber, Charles L Sprung (J Crit Care, 200303)
end-life-intensive-care-unit-decisions-communication-documentation.asp

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Clinical trials in orthodontics I: demographic details of clinical trials published in three orthodontic journals between 1989 and 1998.

Aim: To test the hypothesis that there is insufficient evidence available, from clinical trials, to allow evidence-based decisions to be made on the effectiveness of orthodontic treatment. OBJECTIVES: To identify reports of orthodontic clinical trials ...
J E Harrison (J Orthod, 200303)
clinical-trials-orthodontics-demographic-details-clinical-trials.asp

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A normality bias in legal decision making.

It is important to understand how legal fact finders determine causation and assign blame. However, this process is poorly understood. Among the psychological factors that affect decision makers are an omission bias (a tendency to blame actions more than ...
Robert A Prentice, Jonathan J Koehler (Cornell Law Rev, 200303)
normality-bias-legal-decision-making.asp

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Female genital mutilation and the unborn female child in southwest Nigeria.

Female genital mutilation, despite efforts to abolish it, is still widely practised in Nigeria. The risk of female genital mutilation to a female child in southwest Nigeria was investigated by interviewing 430 consecutive pregnant women attending the ...
I O Ogunlola, E O Orji, A T Owolabi (J Obstet Gynaecol, 200303)
female-genital-mutilation-unborn-female-child-southwest-nigeria.asp

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Nurse supervisors actions in relation to their decision-making style and ethical approach to clinical supervision.

AIM: The aim of the study was to explore the decision-making style and ethical approach of nurse supervisors by focusing on their priorities and interventions in the supervision process. BACKGROUND: Clinical supervision promotes ethical awareness and ...
Ingela Berggren, Elisabeth Severinsson (J Adv Nurs, 200303)
nurse-supervisors-actions-relation-decision-making-style-ethical.asp

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Gender-role attitudes among Egyptian adolescents.

Using nationally representative survey data, this study explores gender-role attitudes among unmarried adolescents aged 16-19 in Egypt, a society characterized by distinct and often segregated roles for men and women. Adolescents views about desirable ...
Barbara S Mensch, Barbara L Ibrahim, Susan M Lee, Omaima el-Gibaly (Stud Fam Plann, 200303)
gender-role-attitudes-egyptian-adolescents.asp

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Psychological models of professional decision making.

People are often expected to make decisions based on all of the relevant information, weighted and combined appropriately. Under many conditions, however, people use heuristic strategies that depart from this ideal. I tested the ability of two models to ...
Mandeep K Dhami (Psychol Sci, 200303)
psychological-models-professional-decision-making.asp

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Conflicts of interest: experiences of close relatives of patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

It is well known that close relatives of terminally ill patients endure great emotional stress. Many factors, such as existential concerns, contribute to the distress of these relatives. In this study, interviews were conducted to explore experiences ...
Ingrid Bolmsjö, Göran Hermérn (Nurs Ethics, 200303)
conflicts-interest-experiences-close-relatives-patients-suffering.asp

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A qualitative study of clinical decision making in recommending discharge placement from the acute care setting.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: One of the roles of rehabilitation professionals in the acute care setting is making recommendations for patients discharge placement. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the decision-making process of physical ...
Diane U Jette, Lisa Grover, Carol P Keck (Phys Ther, 200303)
qualitative-study-clinical-decision-making-recommending-discharge.asp